Ex parte HARDEE - Page 3




          Appeal No. 1998-1815                                       Page 3           
          Application No. 08/684,328                                                  


                    said operating step including operating at least                  
               one local sense amplifier drive transistor to                          
               provide power to said latch;                                           
                    coupling said first voltage to a control                          
               electrode of a first read amplifier transistor in a                    
               local read amplifier communicating with said sense                     
               amplifier latch; and                                                   
                    generating a pair of differential signals via                     
               said local read amplifier based on said first                          
               voltage and the state of said first read amplifier                     
               transistor;                                                            
                    wherein said differential signals are generated                   
               without disturbing said first internal latch node.                     


               The references relied on in rejecting the claims follow:               
               U.S. Patent Application 08/674,282 ('282                               
               Application)                                                           
                                                  (filed July  1, 1996)               
               U.S. Patent Application 08/284,183 ('183 Application)                  
                                                  (filed Aug.  2, 1994)               
               Young               5,247,479           Sep. 21, 1993                  
                                             (filed May  23, 1991)                    
               Toshiba et al. (Toshiba), European Patent                              
               Application                                                            
               0 175 880                                    Apr.  2,                  
          1986.                                                                       

          Claims 30-40 and 45-46 stand provisionally rejected under the               
          doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting as unpatentable               








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